If you figured it out that would be amazing. I'm not sure myself what the core binding forms are, but this is a very interesting problem, I'm enjoying reading about you digging it up.
-Alan On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:10:03PM -0500, Patrick Li wrote: > Great. Thanks for that tip! I think I will try and figure it out. > As long as I can figure out what the core binding-introducing forms are, I > think I can do it. > -Patrick > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Peter Bex <[1]peter....@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:46:58PM -0500, Patrick Li wrote: > > > > The "when" should not be macroexpanded because it is a local binding > > introduced by the let form. In that context, it is actually *not* a > macro. > > > > Does anyone know which forms introduce new bindings? How can I check > this > > up? > > I'm afraid to really do this properly you'd need to implement your own > macro-expander. You need to do all sorts of bookkeeping to get your > syntactic environments straight. The macro-expander needs to know about > core forms like LET and extend the environment accordingly when those > are > used. See expand.scm in Chicken core (hairy!), or alexpander in the > Chicken 3 egg repo (cleaner, but still rather tricky) for an example of > such things. > > Cheers, > Peter > -- > [2]http://sjamaan.ath.cx > -- > "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer > is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically > and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic > experience much like composing poetry or music." > -- Donald Knuth > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:peter....@xs4all.nl > 2. http://sjamaan.ath.cx/ > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users -- .i ko djuno fi le do sevzi _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
